North Korea’s recent nuclear test has again raised concerns that the country may illicitly contribute to nuclear proliferation. In a Christian Science Monitor [2]article, Daniel Pinkston [3]of the Ploughshares-funded International Crisis Group [3]says North Korea is unlikely to provide nuclear assistance or devices to nonstate terrorist groups like Al Qaeda, due to the difficulties of such a transaction. He added that if the goal of such a group was a bomb, the design of choice is a uranium bomb, which North Korea has not yet produced. "You can't rule it out, but I think it's a low-probability event," Pinkston says. "If you are interested in cash or cooperation, why would you bother with that?"
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[1] https://www.ploughshares.org/file/789
[2] http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0528/p06s01-wosc.html
[3] http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5063&l=1